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MARE 139’s “Monday Morning Commute”

Back in the day, it wasn’t just the exterior of subway cars that served as battlegrounds for graffiti writers. The insides were also considered prime real estate for vandals, and ink was the medium of choice for covering pretty much anything that could be written on. This eventually resulted in layers upon layers of flood tags and is what inspired MARE 139 to create this latest piece of work with KRink, that pays respect to the interior ink battles he refers to as the Flood Wars of the late 1970’s on the 2 and 5 trains. He calls this piece “Monday Morning Commute,” a fitting name that according to MARE, “[R]eflects that early morning train ride to school after a long weekend of hitting up the insides.”